(Reuters) - Israeli troops killed eight Palestinian gunmen in clashes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, including seven from the militant group Hamas, amid a surge in violence in the coastal territory.| A local commander of the group who was in the car was critically wounded and two passersby were also hurt. |
The latest gunman killed was from the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a wing of President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement. His car was struck by a missile in an Israeli air strike, emergency workers said. A local commander of the group who was in the car was critically wounded and two passersby were also hurt.
Four of the Hamas militants killed on Saturday died when a house they were hiding in was hit by a series of Israeli missiles, security sources said. A fifth later died of his wounds. Three others were killed in separate raids.